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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 21h

I think the chance is quite a bit higher than nonzero. Trump is done with Leo and is probably focused on maximizing his own immunity. And the lame duck GOP Senate will confirm anyone he puts forward, up to and including a sentient bowl of warm pudding, in 5 minutes or less.

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 03/10/2026

Tides much higher than normal, and potentially record-breaking, will occur in San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area this winter due to the effects of El Niño.

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San Francisco could see ‘30 king tides’ this winter as El Niño looms

Tides much higher than normal, and potentially record-breaking, will occur in San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area this winter due to the effects of El Niño.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Paxton situation is interesting because it highlights, in the extreme, what is otherwise extremely normal GOP behavior. They will absolutely vote for the slimeball over an icky Democrat.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The schism tracked roughly along the same lines as the ones drawn during the initial response to Trump." Indeed! And the party went all in. Why on earth does Chait think this time will be any different? They know hate is the glue that holds them together.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And often kept the most necessary/salient ones in our glove compartments or car door holders. (One of the big reasons for glove compartments and car door holders was to house maps!)

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I once got the birth plan of someone in Australia who shares the same first initial and last name. Hope she ended up straightening that out!

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The shoebill stork has entered the chat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoebill

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Shoebill - Wikipedia

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a cult of personality, repetitive rituals are important.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the GOP is fully trumpified and the rising generation of staffers and wannabes are even worse. if you're between 25-35 and an aspiring right-wing politician you've spent most/all of your adult life in a political and social ecosystem the rewards this shit and weeds out people repulsed by it

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, I went straight to the Boss Hogg place too.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm so sorry. Losing a treasured family member like that is always so hard.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The fact that this is even a plausible possibility, because the people running things are so deluded and stupid, is really, really something.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I suspect the actual corruption is less salient than whether this story pierces her aura of independence: she owes Trump for quashing the investigation.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 22/09/2026

Newsom is a dipshit, a thread:

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Don't fuck people who work for you" - an ethical low bar Congressional Republicans trip over constantly.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Normally, getting into a battle royale with your Hillsborough neighbors is a bad move. Those people have lawyers and a deferential local government and can play the long game. But these folks have the money to maybe see it through.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Post's story seems to be based on information from "traditional" political insiders around Trump, and doesn't acknowledge the particularly warped and unreal info bubble he's surrounded himself with. Sure, some people are trying to convey reality to him, but Natalie Harp is everywhere he goes.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Didn't these assholes just finish outlawing "fake meat" in places like Florida? Oops.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

He's correct! He's much more likely to be shot. (Like most of the Old Confederacy, AL is a very violent state.)

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He says the same thing about the reflecting pool. I guess it's just a weird coincidence that the minute Trump starts personally micromanaging a national monument, it becomes an unusable wreck.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.” Robert Penn Warren, who died on this day in 1989

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Normally it's like "Wow, he actually said that in public" but this is "Wow, he actually said that in SWORN CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY." (Somebody needs to check his hard drive. Ye gods.)

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nilla wafers are objectively terrible cookies but they're tradition.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Chessman cookies instead of nilla wafers is an interesting innovation.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

40% of the country exists in a media environment where the real enemies are liberals and city dwellers. It's impossible to maintain national solidarity under those conditions.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

He's getting more disinhibited. Whether it's because of his absolute power bubble, cognitive decline, or both is hard to tell from a distance, but for whatever reason, it's definitely happening.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This 100%, plus it actually affects every girl or woman in sports because it's an open invitation to police gender presentation.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I saw someone reading what appeared to be a book or magazine article on a foldable phone on BART yesterday and holding it up with one hand looked really uncomfortable and like something that only marginally works if you have large hands.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It didn't drop below 80 until after midnight. I had a 6am meeting this morning. Everything's fine.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's 92F and humid/overcast in San Francisco at 5:30pm with no breeze. It's 85F in my living room. Cool, cool. This is totally normal weather and I didn't need to sleep tonight anyway.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wow, there's a name I haven't seen in a while. I worked with him ~20 years ago and his hair looks exactly the same. Exactly.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Things get more expensive over time. Wow. (And if you don't like your property tax rate increasing, I invite you to experience how that's working out in California.)

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes, I am being driven mad. Your mortgage, your property tax payment, and your insurance payment are three separate payments and the fixed rate only applies to the mortgage! In some cases, the mortgage lender requires you to pay all three to the same escrow account. This is not hard.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's extremely hard to feel sorry for the golfers who signed on to this morally indefensible shitshow, to say the least.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He's trying to Power of Positive Thinking his way out of this mess as hard as he can and it's not going to work.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

She was too much of a legal liability for FOX, so this should work out extremely well for leadership that knows much less about how to run a news organization.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The One Neat Trick metaphor is especially apt because the message of MAHA is that everyone is a consumer and the answer is to consume "better." People who are inclined to reduce health care to consumption patterns can always find a different thing to consume. It's the whole frame that's the problem.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Punctuation is life saving… #BookSky 🐊

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is unhinged even for him. So glad he has the nuclear codes! What could go wrong?

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.

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